2023 Highbridge Film Festival Award Winners
WILMORE, Ky. (April 15th, 2023) – Asbury University’s Highbridge Film Festival names the award-winning films and award category winners for 2023:
Best High School Film: “Sheets”
The Wold Brothers
Best Costume, Makeup: “David the Kid”
Kevin Combs
Best Production Design: “Chops”
Lilianna Fischer
Best Production Design: “TOAST”
Emalee Crouse
Best Sound Design: “Chops”
Danny Barracca & John Golden
Best Original Score: “Chops”
Ian Wang
Best Visual Effects: “Up the Road”
Andrew Stratton
Best Cinematography: “TOAST“
Gavin Oak-Lee Reed
Best Editing: “Laundry Day”
Tyler Chong
Best Documentary: “Don’t Forget Us: A Journey Through the Holocaust”
Gracie Turner
The Blake and Shannon Bailey Storytelling Award
Ian Wang for the screenplay, “Piece by Piece”
Best Screenplay: “Chops”
Danny Barracca
Best Actor: “Up the Road”
Gavin Oak-Lee Reed
Best Actress: “How’s Ivy?”
Kaitlyn McCracken
Best Director: “TOAST”
Travis Kane Price
Best Picture: “TOAST”
John Michael Heard, Producer
Servant Leader Crew Award
Faith Osborne - First Assistant Director for “WASH”
Audience Choice Award: “TOAST“
Travis Kane Price
View the showcase and awards livestream replay on our main page. Winning films, awards, and credits will be posted soon on the 2023 Showcase page.
Asbury University’s acclaimed School of Communication Arts hosted the 2023 Highbridge Film Festival on the Asbury campus, April 14th through the 15th. The festival culminated with the 19th-annual Highbridge Film Festival showcase screening and awards show at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 15th, in Hughes Auditorium.
ABOUT HIGHBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL
Highbridge Film Festival is a nationally recognized collegiate filmmaking competition dedicated to expressing and exploring the human condition through the power of the visual story. It began in 2005 as a vehicle for Asbury University’s School of Communication Arts to showcase student films and, in the process, encourage visual storytelling. This year marks the 19th anniversary of the festival, which has grown into a nationally recognized collegiate film festival delighting audiences and attracting wide-ranging interest from the film industry. Each year 12-15 films are selected from many submissions and are screened for an enthusiastic audience and judged by movie and television industry professionals who decide the awards given for technical and narrative skills.